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God created man in his image and gave them free will. However, man created me in his idealistic image to obey his every whim. Greed... Corruption... lust for powered with an excuse for the pursuit of knowlege. These were few of the many flaws that existed man. What I witnessed became my thought on the the qualities of man and it sickened me to be 'born' into their currupted world and way of life.
Where ever I went, death and pain followed. Death came to for me many times; hired by the hand of man in many cases. But in all of those cases, mans companion bargained with death. A eternal contract is made between the two to spare my own life. The cost... was their life to spare my own.
Again, I had succumb to the darkness that had overtaken me. I often wondered if death was every that simple, but alas, death wasn't not what I had gave myself to. If felt my eyelids part, remembering the blur of light that had been eclipsed by something, or better yet, some one. Numb through out my entire body, trying to recollect lost events of the immeadiate past, I was able to left myself up slightly. No sooner after when some one grasped hold of my chests and I resetted to my positions on the dirt ground. The sounds of crying... joyful crying, enfulfed the air and I finally came to realize who it was when she began to speak.
"Rei, I'm so glad you're ok. I'm so sorry."
Trying to grasp a sence of where exacty were we, m hands clenched agaisnt the dirt of the ground. I could fell the wet, soiled earth underneath my finger tips and in my hair as well. It all came to getter as my vision had cleared and the found Mami and I surrounded by dirt walls. Were in a hole, freshly dug prior a day before. Before I could say or questions any thing, the was a change in Mami's childish voice. Almost as if she was possessed or had grown oldered at that moment, for the subject matter was nothing one could expect from a 10 year old girl.
"Rei... mommy said that there's something much greater instore for you. She said, instead of protecting me, I have to protect you." She then smiled, despite our plight. "Thank you Rei. My mommy also said that I'll be able to actually see her soon. She always said that we'd meet face to face, but first there was something I had to do. I didn't know it untill now, but now I know what I have to do."
Something was wrong about this, even what I was thinking was writting accross my face. At the time, I didn't have the slightest clue what she was talking about. But the truth would soon follow after time would past... sooner than what I had thought. a latter dropped down into the hole and some one yelled down, instructioning use to climb up. Mami had climbed first and I followed after. Before she reached the top, she was snatched up and I was too as I gotten closer. We were carried back into the village and toss to the ground. The sound of sick laughter cause my spine to shiver and the familar voice that sneered about had matched the appearance of the one every one called "Master". He wore a clean white suit that was covered by a dingy cloak to keep it from getting filty. He had also been wearing glasses with rectangle frames. Around his waist was a gunholster with a gun resembling a magnum and a cain in his hand. Mami and I was tossed to his feet; completely at his mercy.
Behind him, another man who was rather larger than the first walked infront, everyone refered to him as the Count. He commanded us to stand and so we did. As I stood, I looked around to find the village to be deserted, but I was able to see on house with the window cracked up. Apparrently, we were being watched by the village slaves. The man stepped to Mami first. His large hand latched onto her jaw and he forcefully turned her head, seemingly inspecting her. An evil snicker left from him as a comment had followed.
"Heh, this is the best your rat hole has to offer?"
In responce, "Master" spoke."We have been having problems getting the bitches here to bare children."
"You expect me to believe that excuse. Maybe your men aren't man enough to do what their suppose to with them." Count hissed at him. "Does not matter. I will take extremely good care of this one." He said with a even sicker laugh. He then left from here and came infront of me.
Just as he had did Mami, his large hand latched holded of my jaw.
As instincts serve, My hands reached up and my own tiny hands tryed to latch hold of his arm. The Count was clearly angry by this; with that same arm with his hand still on my jaw, he lifted me off the ground.
'Master' quickly step up and spoke.
"Count, you shouldn't damange the merchandise. That one is new to these parts and you're the first to ever see him."
"Is that right? He's quite rebellious... he'd make the perfected whipping boy when I'm bored."
As the opprotunist he was, 'Master' quickly devised a plan and suddenly placed a price on my head. "I see you're interested. He'll cost twice as much as the girl there." The Count tossed me a side as if I was some kind of rag doll. Hearing the patters of tiny feet running on the ground, Mami ran to my side. The Count turned to 'Master' "You drive a hard bargian. But I want to see if he's worth buying.
His hand reached to his side and something fell to the ground. A thick, leather whip had been shown and held in his hands. It was too fast for me to catch on. As I tried to stand to my feet, a crack of the whip was heard and my body jilted of the ground and as gravity served, I feel back to the ground. Screams from Mami echoed from the the village as she begged for it to stop, but as expected, the Count didn't listen. Again, a crack of the whip ensured my pain and screams from my mouth that I tried to hold bursted fowarded.
"Looks like I broke him just that quickly..."
I rolled over to see The count walk over to me. His armed reached out at me. I thought for sure that he'd just kill me for not meeting his expectations. I was ready for death. I wanted to die right there, rather than haveing to live my false life in years of physical abuse. But something entered into my ear. Mami's voice gave me a reason to try and struggle for life. "Thank you for every thing Rei... because of you, I can finally go where my mommy is."
My eyes opened to see Mame biting the mans extended arm. It was also sudden that the slaves in the village crowd into the streets. I was yanked up from the ground into the hands of some one. "listen to me child. You are not part of this mess and it would be a shame to let you get involved. When I drop you, I want you to run and don't look back."
"No! I can't! What about Mami!?" I yelled back to him. And he quickly responded.
"Don't worry about Mami. Though it pains me to say this, what she's doing is best. It's better than being cursed as a slave of the Count. I do have to say, thanks to you two, our eye's are more open to the truth. We will fight for our freedom, but you can't be here to witness it."
With thoses said, I was dropped to my feet. The guy that carried me there told me to run and so I did... partly. I ran enough and hid in the little veggitation that was available to in the dry-out region. I spied down onto the part of the village I could see. Screams of the slaves and thier oppressors. Death covered the village and I only watched helplessly.
It was nearly an hour when the screams and gunshots had stopped. Agaisnt my will, I ran back into the village. I had to know the outcome of what had happened. The fresh pools of blood stained the ground. Dozens of bodys layed were every where. I walked through the village, unphased by the mass homicides and mutilated bodys. I wasn't scared... I don't know why, but fear was starting etch its way into my heart as I says the man that caried me away. One leg was missing while the other was ridden with bullet holes. He was not yet dead, but it wasn't long before he was. He gathered enough energy to say something before he passed away.
"Kid... you should have ran... we didn't want you to be involved... or even see this...we didn't want this for... Ma...mi-"
It finally hit me... Mami was in the middle of this conflict. The fear of her death... I tried to ignore as he ran towards the place where the slave deal was going down. Apon reaching there, knives and other household utensils were lodged into the Count and the "Master" body. They were brutalily murder by the the very ones they held captive; they got exactly what they deserved. But more importanting, the fear I tried to conqured had won the battle. I spotted the small frame of what was the sweet little girl that had fought for me. Mami layed motionless on the ground. The Counts whip had been tightly wrung around her neck. The signs of her struggle could be plainly seen as she was covered with whip lashes.
I still refused to to accepted the obvious as I desperately moved quickly to remove the whip from around her next and rolled her on her back.
"Mami, wake up. You have to. It's me, Rei! Wake up! Please, get up! MAMIIIIIIIIIIIII"
For the second time in my existance, my life was exchanced for that of anothers. For the second time, tears of pain and grief fought their way out from my young eyes. And entire village... slain because of my untimely arrival. Again, I began to wandered the earth again, but this time, I wasn't wandering to find my resting place. I was wandering to find a purpose to live... becaue my life was no longer mine to live, but to those that sacraficed themselves for my existance I thought was a mear joke. A prank pulled on me by the very man that brought me into this world.
So much pain I had to experience during the first year of my false life. I couldn't expect to be normal... to be a normal human... The experiences of a human were not for me to ever find out. The innocence of childhood, a place with a family, and a future that I was very certain wouldn't qualify as humane was not to be forseen.
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-Hidden File #14- Brief history of the slave village
There's not much known about the village of Mami and the other slaves. It was rumored that the one who forced residence to call him Master has suddenly came into power and sold off the villagers to other slave owners and traders. On particular slave owner was the Count. Only comeing to purchase child slaves over the age of ten, for years he only purchased the children. More rumors made their way to the village that the girls were brutally raped every day by the Count and eventually were killed after he got enough out of them. As the rumors seem to came to reality, the slaves devised a plan to to stop breeding among each other. No parent wanted to bare the thought of there childed going through so much pain.
The Master caught on to the slaves revolt and executed many of the male slaves. To ensure that more children were born, he'd often send his own men and even himself, to rape and impregnate the female slaves. This method resulted in the birth of Mami, as well as man other children before her. However, other mothers that lived through the the birth or even before birth, would kill their own baby and themselves.
Also contributing to the lack of childbirth was due prior of many of the women who were raped uteris and other parts of there organs to bare children were savagely destroyed.
The sudden uprising to save Rei happened earlier after the capture of Mami and Rei when the slaves held a secret meeting. The felt guilty for having and outsider getting involved and felt that they were responcible. Also they took there options that the Master had given the slave that snitched on where Mami and Rei was hidding. Continue to live in slavery, or be set free by death. Unfortunate and definitely not the best options, but they felt as if they had no other choice. Who could blame them.
((will run through for typos and errors later.))
 Rei Kizuhara · Thu May 12, 2005 @ 11:02pm · 0 Comments |
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